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• October 15, 2025 15 Oct'25

  AI becomes major accelerator for IoT

  Survey reveals ‘soaring’ enthusiasm for IoT, with multiple emerging technologies acting as catalysts, and efficiency and productivity gains demonstrating return on investment

• October 14, 2025 14 Oct'25

  Infosys multiplies UK public sector revenue by 160 with £1.2bn NHS deal

  Gone are the days of Indian IT suppliers being shunned in UK government contracts through job and security fears

• October 14, 2025 14 Oct'25

  Shameless Fujitsu boss confident firm will be back in ‘good books’ in 18 months

  Pressure is mounting on Fujitsu as its internal culture and lack of genuine regret over its part in the Post Office scandal are revealed by Computer Weekly

• October 14, 2025 14 Oct'25

  Vox pop: Digital transformation across the Arab world

  We asked exhibitors at UAE startup event Expand North Star about the challenges – from lack of fundamental infrastructure to first-world problems – faced by startups and digital businesses in the Middle East

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  Nvidia scores Meta and Oracle for networking fabric

  Nvidia lands hyperscalers Meta and Oracle for its Spectrum-X networking fabric and is leading an industry coalition to adopt an 800-volt DC power standard for datacentres

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  Interview: Shaping the future of AI in the UAE

  At Gitex 2025 in Dubai, the largest tech show in the Middle East, Chiara Marcati, chief AI advisory and business officer at AI71, discusses the UAE’s ambition to become a global leader in artificial intelligence

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  Microsoft and the UAE: Driving AI from strategy to real impact

  Exploring how Microsoft and the UAE are turning AI ambition into practical solutions, empowering talent, and guiding CIOs to adopt AI at scale

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  UK police to upgrade illicit asset recovery system

  A new system is being developed by the Police Digital Service and NEC Software Solutions to help manage the recovery of criminal assets, replacing 20-year-old legacy infrastructure

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  Thales: Trust in AI for critical systems needs to be engineered

  Confidence in artificial intelligence capabilities that power critical systems must go beyond words and be built on a hybrid model that combines data with physics and logic to prove reliability, according to Thales’s chief scientist

• October 13, 2025 13 Oct'25

  UAE AI minister: ‘We’ll have 10,000 AI companies in five years’

  Gulf state AI minister sets out plans to encourage artificial intelligence companies with certification and ranking based on AI competence and UAE presence at startup event in Dubai this week

• October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

  Forget training, find your killer apps during AI inference

  Pure Storage executives talk about why most artificial intelligence projects are about inference, during production, and why that means storage must respond to capacity needs and help optimise data management

• October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

  Cloudera Evolve London: 91% of organisations say data unfit for AI purposes

  Cloudera research finds only 9% of organisations have fully AI-ready data, with siloed data and security major barriers to enterprise AI success, as well as gender bias in AI development

• October 09, 2025 09 Oct'25

  Infor debuts AI agents to tackle industry-specific tasks

  Infor unveils role-based AI agents to automate workflows in niche sectors from dairy to automotive, as well as a new cloud migration programme to ease the transition to cloud

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  Interview: Fausto Fleites, vice-president of data intelligence, ScottsMiracle-Gro

  The data leader’s hands-on experience with machine learning has helped to build a three-part strategy to maximise the benefits of AI at the gardening specialist

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  Forrester Technology & Innovation Summit: Prepare for AI failures

  The AI bandwagon is about to be derailed, and CIOs are going to have to pick up the pieces

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  Fujitsu boss said Post Office inquiry report wasn’t ‘that bad’, despite link to suicides

  Computer Weekly reveals callous comments made by a senior Fujitsu executive about Post Office scandal inquiry report

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  Interview: Change management for digitisation and agentic AI

  We speak to Thomas Bodé, chief digital transformation officer at European energy company Met Group, about delivering successful digital initiatives

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  FairPrice deploys autonomous vehicles for supply chain operations

  The supermarket giant has teamed up with tech firm Zelos to deploy a fleet of electric autonomous vehicles to bolster supply chain efficiency and cut carbon emissions

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  TalkTalk undoes customer experience stack complexity to boost contact centre agents

  TalkTalk chief operating officer Neil Smith describes the firm’s journey out of CX stack complexity towards more empowered contact centre agents

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  SuiteWorld 2025: NetSuite Next aims to transform business through AI

  Next generation of leading Cloud ERP system embeds conversational artificial intelligence and agentic workflows across the suite to show how AI, in particular Chat GPT, can take businesses to a new level

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  How OpenAI’s AMD bet raises the stakes in GPU dominance

  The OpenAI partnership with AMD gives it the option to invest directly in the chipmaker

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  SuiteWorld 2025: NetSuite unveils AI innovations for future business

  AI cloud ERP provider lifts lid on GenAI-based ecommerce tools and presents how embedded AI is enabling customers, partners and developers to integrate models, design custom agents, and compose next-gen workflows and experiences

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  How the UAE is using AI to transform healthcare

  The UAE’s decision to appoint AI leaders in every ministry signals a shift - in healthcare, success is measured not only in cost savings, but in efficiency, sustainability, and better patient outcomes

• October 08, 2025 08 Oct'25

  AI and big data: Driving the UAE’s smart transport revolution

  From real-time passenger insights to predictive maintenance, the UAE is leveraging AI and advanced data platforms to transform mobility, enhance efficiency, and set a global benchmark in intelligent transport.

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  Nato chooses Oracle to secure battlefield communications

  Nato has chosen Oracle and Druid to secure private 5G networks for cyber defence, war gaming and research, using Oracle Cloud and edge technology

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  The Security Interviews: David Bradbury, CSO, Okta

  Okta’s chief security officer talks security by default and explains why he thinks time is running out for the shared responsibility model

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  AI halves clinical trial approval times

  Use of artificial intelligence to flag up potential issues with clinical trial applications means assessors can approve new treatments faster

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  Peer demands Fujitsu pay £700m in interim as it prepares response to Post Office scandal inquiry

  Fujitsu, government and Post Office set to outline restorative justice plans, as peers calls for an interim payment towards costs.

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  Vibe coding: A question of chicken feed or food

  If used correctly, large language models promise to revolutionise software development – but they do not easily fit some obvious corporate IT use cases

• October 07, 2025 07 Oct'25

  Airbus climbs in industrial digitisation with private 5G deployment

  Global aircraft manufacturer advances factory digitisation with private 5G connectivity at production sites supporting critical initiatives such as 3D simulation, augmented reality, improved traceability and predictive maintenance

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Oracle patches E-Business suite targeted by Cl0p ransomware

  Oracle pushes a patch for a dangerous zero-day under active exploitation by one of the most notorious ransomware gangs around

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Police facial recognition trials show little evidence of benefits

  In-the-wild testing of police facial recognition systems has failed to generate clear evidence of the technology’s benefits, or to assess the full range of socio-technical impacts

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Gartner: IT leaders need to prepare for GenAI legal issues

  GenAI is being embedded into enterprise software. This has implications for governance and regulatory compliance

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  SAP: AI is commoditising business applications

  Business applications are at risk of being commoditised with artificial intelligence increasingly becoming the new interface that lets businesses execute tasks across different systems, according to a senior SAP leader

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Enterprise software sales through cloud hyperscale marketplaces set to hit $163bn by 2030

  Research from IT market watcher Omdia suggests enterprise IT buyers are getting increasingly comfortable with making purchases through the Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud marketplaces

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  Cisco unveils agentic capabilities for next-generation collaboration

  IT and networking giant claims ‘major’ steps forward in collaboration and customer experience, both powered by AI, and designed to help enterprises work and serve smarter

• October 06, 2025 06 Oct'25

  UK government to consult on police live facial recognition use

  The UK’s policing minister has confirmed the government will consult on the use of live facial recognition by law enforcement before expanding its use throughout England, but so far, the technology has been deployed with minimal public debate or ...

• October 03, 2025 03 Oct'25

  Interview: Sacha Vaughan, chief supply chain officer, Joseph Joseph

  As the houseware maker’s supply chain is being transformed for the digital age, its leader explains why technology knowledge is critical to her job

• October 03, 2025 03 Oct'25

  Software engineering limited by lack of full automation

  The continuous deployment part of the software development lifecycle appears to be velocity-limiting

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  Aston University partners Capgemini for AI centre of excellence

  University works with IT services giant to open artificial intelligence centre of excellence in London campus

• October 02, 2025 02 Oct'25

  Singtel debuts low-code platform to ease AI deployment

  Singtel’s AI Studio, part of its CUBΣ network-as-a-service offering, aims to simplify AI development and deployment while addressing enterprise concerns around security and data sovereignty

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  Interview: Wayne Barlow, head of terminal products, Bloomberg

  Techie turned business leader Wayne Barlow heads up the development of Bloomberg’s customer-touching terminal software

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  E-commerce platform eBay offers free ChatGPT training and tools

  Through eBay Activate, small businesses selling on the online marketplace will gain access to GPT-powered productivity and e-commerce tools

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  Over half of UK adults use mobile wallets

  Cash accounted for less than 10% of payments in the UK in 2024, according to UK Finance figures

• October 01, 2025 01 Oct'25

  Why AI agent projects are stalling in production

  A Confluent technology strategist explains why multi-agent workflows become brittle monoliths and how access to real-time, streaming data is key to the success of agentic AI deployments

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Cloud provider publishes ‘tech sovereignty’ plan for UK

  In the face of mounting data sovereignty concerns across Europe, UK cloud provider Civo lays out high-level plan for how the government can retain control and access of its data should the geopolitical situation sour

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Bank of America builds GenAI assistant for instant answers for customers

  Queries that would take an employee an hour to answer are completed almost instantaneously with the Bank of America’s generative AI assistant

• September 30, 2025 30 Sep'25

  Companies reap the rewards of being AI-first

  Few companies are seeing a return on their AI investment, but those that do tend to be laser-focused on artificial intelligence, with established training and IT growth plans

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  JLR tentatively restarts production, following £1.5bn government backing

  Jaguar Land Rover is to resume car production after a £1.5bn government loan guarantee amid its cyber attack fallout. Debate is growing over the bailout and insurance

• September 29, 2025 29 Sep'25

  Women’s Rugby World Cup premiered GenAI for broadcast match analysis

  England’s triumph at the Women’s Rugby World Cup also saw the debut of generative AI for real-time broadcast rugby match analysis